On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 07:33:18AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > caller specific is unaceptable. That being said your idea doesn't sounds > > unreasonable, but will require a bit more work and has no real short-term > > need. > > So your proposal is to remove buffer_heads from ext2?
No, the proposal is to remove buffer_heads from XFS first, then GFS2 and then maybe others like ext4. I'd like to remove buffer_heads from the DAX path for ext2 and ext4 entitrely for sure (and direct I/O next).
